Maria Toorpakai discusses her powerful memoir, A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight. Maria Toorpakai hails from Pakistan's violently oppressive northwest tribal region, where the idea of women playing sports is considered "haram-un-Islamic"-forbidden-and girls rarely leave their homes. But she did, passing as a boy in order to play the sports she loved, thus becoming a lightning rod of freedom in her country's fierce battle over women's rights. A Different Kind of Daughter tell of Maria's harrowing journey to play the sport she knew was her destiny.
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Maria Toorpakai discusses her powerful memoir, A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight. Maria Toorpakai hails from Pakistan's violently oppressive northwest tribal region, where the idea of women playing sports is considered "haram-un-Islamic"-forbidden-and girls rarely leave their homes. But she did, passing as a boy in order to play the sports she loved, thus becoming a lightning rod of freedom in her country's fierce battle over women's rights. A Different Kind of Daughter tell of Maria's harrowing journey to play the sport she knew was her destiny.
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